Market Studies

“While many mortgage servicers are successfully assisting borrowers to avoid foreclosure, today's report highlights that some servicers are lagging their peers and are less well-equipped to assist borrowers who have exited pandemic housing protections,” said Rohit Chopra, CFPB Director.

According to a recent Fannie Mae survey, there is a latent interest in blockchain technology, but most lenders have yet to invest in it.

Epiq, an Atlanta-based provider of intelligence to the legal services industry, has released its April 2022 bankruptcy filing statistics from its new Bankruptcy Analytics platform which found that filings decreased by 10% last month representing 32,508 filings of all types, down ...

Nationally, Gen Z homebuyers represent approximately 10% of the market, but that number is growing in some states due to an influx of 18 to 24-year-olds.

Time and time again, proverbs across time and cultures tell a tale of a protagonist who refused to get with the times by refusing to accept modern ways of doing business or new technologies. But, according to Fannie Mae’s Economic & Strategic ...

ATTOM Data, a real estate data company, has released its latest iteration of the Foreclosure Market Report for April 2022 which has found that there were a total of 30,674 properties with foreclosure filings against them, down 8% from March ...

The Great Recession, now 15 years behind us, and its impacts on homeownership and insurance markets are still being felt today. This is according to a new report from the credit bureau TransUnion, who also found that migration patterns are ...

Mortgage rates have surpassed 5% lately, due in large part to increases to the federal interest rate by the Federal Reserve who in addition to raising the rate twice this year, is expected to have further increases for the foreseeable future. ...

The latest iteration of Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) for April decreased by 4.7 points to 68.5, its lowest level since May 2020, as rising mortgage rates and inflation pushed buyers to question affordability.  All six of the index’s components ...

Buyers are exploring more options to find additional money in their budget due to intensifying cost pressures which is resulting in increased interest in buyers relocating to a different area.  New research from Realtor.com indicates that during the first quarter ...